Evidence Synthesis

• Quality Assessment and Risk of Bias Tool Repository Comprehensive list of tools for methodological assessment
• Center for Evidence Based Practice  Johns Hopkins University  JHNEBP  Includes rating scales, appraisal tools and more
• AMSTAR Checklist   stands for A MeaSurement Tool to Assess systematic Reviews developed by Canadian researchers
• CASP Checklists  Critical Appraisal Skills Programs includes eight tools to use when evaluating research
• Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions official handbook for Cochrane Systematic reviews, includes charts for assessing studies
  • The GRADE Handbook
  • Risk of Bias (RoB2) Tool
• CEBM Catalogue of Bias is a  project mapping all the biases that affect health evidence
• Study Quality Assessment Tools from NIH-National Heart,Lung,and Blood Institute
• University of Glasgow EBP Checklists Forms for appraisal of treatment, harm, diagnosis, decision analysis studies and more
• Downs & Black Checklist for Randomised and Non-randomised Studies Checklist, includes internal & external validity analysis
• Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale For case control or cohort studies
• Levels of Evidence (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt 2023)

Discussing the findings in Hewitt-Taylor, J. (2017). The essential guide to doing a health and social care literature review . Routledge.

Using Excel to Find Systematic Review Patterns https://youtu.be/2QfiM0Xer9Q

Guidance on the Conduct of Narrative Synthesis in Systematic Reviews A Product from the ESRC Methods Programme

Cochrane Handbook Chapter 9: Summarizing study characteristics and preparing for synthesis